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Thursday, January 30, 2014

Cinzia here, to share with you a new card I made for Copic Marker Europe blog.
This time I used a digi image by Mo Manning called “Owl Moon”, I love owles and these two ones embraced under the moon are super cute… aren’t they? ;)

The gorgeous image is called “Owl Moon”, the sentiment is from “LOTV”, the papers are Maya Design from the last "Vintage Autumn Basics" collection, the dies are Magnolia Doohickeys “Vintage Tag”, Spellbinder “Circle Large”, “Circle small” and “Circle classic scalloped ” and Go Create Frilly die

Sunday, January 26, 2014

today
would have been my turn (Barbara) to show you something inspirational,
but I hurt my right hand and am not able to colour, so I want you to
meet one of our talented guest-designers at the Copic Marker Deutschland Blog:ZeolithShe
is a genuine artist, because she skethes the images herself. She made a
very nice tutorial about natural colouring and I want to share it with
you:

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Today,
I show you an image that is much more reallistic as the ones you know
me for, but so I can show you how versatile Copic Marker are.

For
drawing the image I did not use Multiliners, because they would have made
too strong a contrast. That's why I used a very fine pencil. Take care
to use a very hard pencil, because it produces less abraison and does
not spoil the Copic nibs so easily.

I use R08 as basic colour for the feathers, it is a strong orange-red tone.

As usual, I just work it out roughly. You don't have to be afraid to do so, it will be blended later to a smooth surface.

As
second colour I use R46, a strong colour, and blend both reds
together.

I add some accents with R46 and will work them out later.

Now I use W3 and W5, they are great to soften the red and give more dimension. I work on the single feathers this way:

Add
W5 to the tipps ad blend it with W3. So you create a soft blending.I
used W3 and W5 for the darker parts of the beak and the feet.

On the second picture I added an even deeper shadow with W7 and W5.

So
the bird is finished, now I have to colour the twig it is sitting on.
To make them look as realistic as possible, I work the other way round. So I start with the darkest parts and blend them with lighter tones. I
use E44 and E43 as basis and blended with E42. Then I add E70 and E71 to the thinner twigs. For the leaves I only used E70 and E71.

The berries were coloured with the same Copic Markers as the feathers, but without the greys. The background is B91 and C00. On this ACEO card I use additional colour pens to work out the single feathers with black and the twigs with brown.

*************************************************** Adorable tutorial, isn't it? I only contributed the translation, but as Zeolith is guest of my team, I am a bit proud, too.Big HugsBarbara/Kreativmonster

Saturday, January 25, 2014

I was really thrilled when Diny asked me to join this wonderful team on the Copic Marker Europe blog.

I love to make art journalpages, mixed media projects and cards.

For today I have made an art journalpage with my airbrush and copics. You can make wonderful backgrounds for all kind of projects just using your airbrush, copics and some masks. For the first layer I have been using Dutch Doobadoo masks. For the second layer I stamped with the copics. Just colour your stamp with copics and add a little activator. The image, by Rick St Dennis and flowers are coloured with copics too.

Used colours:

Y15, YR16, YR18, RV04, RV14, RV17, R19, R35, V17, E00,

E02, E13, E34, E57, G14, BV00, BV25

Next month I will show you in a phototutorial how I make backgrounds like this.

Thursday, January 23, 2014

Have you ever coloured with Copics on textiles? And what if it's not only a decorative piece of textile, but one that should be washed from time to time?

So, today I come up with a project where I've used Copics on a Baby Onesie (cotton).

I've coloured, washed, dried and ironed it to show you that it not only looks super cute, but really works well. It's so easy to create lovely little personalised gifts for new borns.

You need:

Baby Onesie

(best, if allready washed off the chemicals of textile production)

MEMENTO ink

in the colours of your choice

stamp of your choice

thick cardboard

(to put between the onesie)

Copic Markers

iron

Put the cardboard into the onesie (between front and back side) to prevent stamp and copic bleed through. Make sure your stamp is well inked. Don't use
Staz-On ink, as it'll ruin your markers! A lot of other inkpads are water based, so they're useless for this kind of project.

Let dry the stamped image, before colouring it. You can fasten up that process by ironing it (use a thin cloth or tissue on top of the image to protect your iron). Blending your Copics is not that easy on textile as they are on paper. You can easily control the amount of colour. Start softly and if you need to intensify the colour, go over it twice and more slowly to let the fiber suck up the colour. But be careful to prevent bleeding it over the lines. Better keep a thin distance to your line and wait if it's running out to the lines after a while. Otherwise you can add a little more colour.

Here you can see the details... and now I use again my iron to dry it up completely.

Again using a protection for your iron. Then I left it resting over night.

I recommend you to wash it by hand. That's a much softer treatment.

If you want to wash it in the machine, I'd recommend you to turn it inside out, so the image will not be rubbed by other textiles.

rince it well and then hang up to dry.

softest would be drying on air instead of putting it into the tumbler.

Under the head of the turtle and under the carrot you can see it ran out of the lines. Happened, because I seemed to use a bit to much colour. So take another chance to practise until you "feel" how much it needs :)

At the moment I have found out no fixing method that prevents/minimises washing off or bleaching (as Copics are alcohol based and react to sunlight). There are many different textile colours on the market with each their own fixing sprays. But it should be tested how they react with Copics and Memento ink. I see less problems using a fixing spray if you're creating textiles for adults. But I'd be rather carefull if textiles are in touch with sensitive baby skin. If someone allready has good experiences with some fixing spray, let us all know and share your ideas placing a comment right below :) THANK YOU!

In another tutorial comming up soon I'll show you how to create such textile gifts using your Digi-Stamps :)

Thursday, January 16, 2014

My card today is made using one of the CHA sneek peaks by Little Darlings Rubber Stamps by Saturated Canary, called Yuki. The papers are also from LDRS, Petals and Lace and the sentiment is also a CHA release, so lots of new items on this card.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

It's me again, Barbara/Kreativmonster for the Copic Marker Europe Blog Challenge.Before we start our new challenge, I have to announce some changes:We are honestly thankful, that many of you shared your creations with us, even though your entries were not eligible for winning our prize. We are supported by Holtz OFFICE SUPPORT GmbH, the importer of Copics for Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. They can only send the markers to winners from within these areas.Lately, there have been so many entries that do not meet this criteria, and it has taken so much time to sort through them. We are very sorry, but please understand that we have to ask you to enter this challenge ONLY if you are living in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

Here is our new challenge for you:

Valentine

As there are only 4 weeks until Valentines, it is the perfect subject, isn't it?

Here are some inspirational projects from our talented DT-Ladies:Diny:

Tuesday, January 14, 2014

After
all those Christmas-cards I was in the mood to use different colours
and so the January Challenge "Yellow & Blue" at Make it Crafty was
just perfect! The image is Lilli Faye - of course from Make it
Crafty.

On the
background I used my airbrushsystem and two stencils, so I was
absolutely sure that the colours would match the image. The area around
the image has been airbrushed, too.

Fairies need blig-bling and so I used Stickles Golden Rod, Diamond and Midnight Blue: